* Nobody is ever going to doubt DeSean Jackson's courage. I don't think I've ever covered a guy with more faith in his ability, who cared less about the consequences of getting hit. That said, flying into a crowd of Seahawks and muffing a punt catch in traffic, which very fortunately bounces out of bounds, your team ahead only 17-7 in the third quarter, is not smart. And this was not the first such indiscretion. Someone needs to take the young man aside and carefully but forcefully set some ground rules, without tarnishing his brass fittings.
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Who knew?
That midway through the season, Todd Herremans would have scored as many touchdowns as Donovan McNabb and Kevin Curtis, combined?Obscure stat
David Akers is 19-for-23 this season. Of his four misses, three have been from 50-plus yards.Extra point
Somebody asked Brian Dawkins Sunday night if the upcoming game against the 7-1 New York Giants was a "must-win."Dawkins, who had just finished talking about how much he was looking forward to such a test, nonetheless refused to characterize the game that way.
And for good reason. The Eagles are 5-3, they've won three in a row. I only count four NFC teams with as many as six wins right now. You can't take the position that the Birds' season is over if the Giants win this week, because it isn't, even though a loss would make the Eagles 0-3 in the NFC East.
This would be, however, a get-people-excited-about-the-Eagles-again win. Everybody knows that the three teams the Eagles just defeated, the 49ers, the Falcons and the Seahawks, are not prime Super Bowl contenders, even if the Falcons are having a surprisingly successful season. The Giants, however, not only are the defending Super Bowl champs, they seem to have become the team we thought the Cowboys were going to be early on. Beat these guys, and a city that just saw the Phillies end a 25-year championship drought will dare to dream. "Why can't us?" indeed.
"It's going to be very important," Dawkins said. "We know this team, and they know us. They know what we like to do, we know what they like to do. It's going to come down to execution, not turning the ball over, getting turnovers, and not giving up big plays ... I can't wait."
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